Art of suspending aerial cables.



L. A. MONEIL.

- PATENTED APR. 3, 1906.

ART OF SUSPBNDING AERIAL CABLES.

APPLICATION FILED SBPT.2.1904.

Armen/EVS No. 816,991. I PATENTED APR. 3, 1906.

. L. A. MGNEIL.

ART 0F S'USPENDING AERIAL CABLES.

APPLIGATION FILED s111112, 1904.

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ART OF SUSPENDING AERIAL CABLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 3, 1906.

' .Application led September 2, 1904-.. Serial No. 223.083.

To all when?, it may concern:

Beit known that I, LEONARD Asi-iron' Me- NEIL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Maywood, in the county of @ook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Art of Suspending Aerial Cables, of whichtlie following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the art of suspending electric and like aerial cables, and its principal objects are to facilitate the erection of such structures.

It consists in the various steps, features, and combinations hereinafter described, and more particularly claimed,

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

Figures 1 to 5 illustrate successive steps taken in carrying out my invention. Fig. 6 shows a portion of the structure adjacent to the reel from which the cable is drawn. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of one embodiment of my improved support shown in place upon a pole.` Fig. 8 1s a front elevation thereof with the suspension member and cable carried thereby in coaction with the temporary carrier. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the supporting-block. Fig. 10 is a broken perspective of the carrier-arm, and Fig. 11 shows a portion of the suspension-wire with the cable hung thereon.

My invention is here illustrated in connection with a series of poles 10, upon which the cable is to be supported. The first step is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1 of the drawings, there being secured to each pole at the point where the cable is to be hung supports S, preferably comprising a block 1l, through which extends an opening 12 to receive some such securing device as a lagscrew 13. In the outer face of the block is preferably formed an angular recess 14, having a front wall 15 partially closing it, but

leaving a space sufliciently wide to permit the introduction of a suspending member or wire for the cable. This furnishes a final or permanent support for this wire, the latter being conveniently retained in place by a set-screw 17, threaded through the front wall. At the rear of the block may be formed a reduced portion 18, contacting with the pole and having at each side an upwardly and outwardly inclined face 19. With these faces may coact similar and oppositely-inclined faces 20,

formed upon the outer side of projections 21 from a carrier-arm 22, the inner vertical faces of these projections resting against the pole and the draft of the inclined faces fixing it :firmly in place. At the under side `of the outer end of each carrier-arm is mounted a rotatable carrying member or Wheel M, which may comprise a hub 23, from the lower extremity of which project teeth 2li, here shown as six in number. The under sides of these teeth are preferably plane, while the upper sides are inclined outwardly from the hub and also laterally from a central line at 25, but leaving below these inclined portions vertical walls 25a. The wheel may conveniently be rotatably supported by a bolt 26. Each arm has an end portion 27 extending upwardly at substantially right angles to the main portion, and upon the outer face of this angular end is mounted a member M', intermeshing with the member M, which it may resemble in all substantial respects. As the next step in suspending the cable the wire W may be fixed at one end to a suitable anchor 28, adjacent to the reel 28, from which the cable is to be drawn. It is then threaded through the openings between the two rotatablecarrier members, as is clearly shown in Fig. 7, it being completely encircled thereby and retained against displacement in any direction. Upon the last pole it may be Yfixed in the permanent carrier. (See Fig. 2.) Then the cable 29 may be drawn from the reel and mounted upon the inclined portion of the suspension-wire WV by means of such hangers as S-hooks, which have upper loops 80, placedv upon the suspension-wire and closed to completely surround it, and opposite loops 31, which may be attached to the cable at suitable intervals by lashings of twine 31u or the like. This iscarried on for a distance as far as a man standing upon or near the ground can conveniently reach. It is illustrated diagrammatically in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

As illustrated in Fig. 6, the drawing-rope 32 is secured to the end of the cable which is to be suspended. It may then be passed over a blockiixed near the foot of the last pole of the series and secured to a capstan in the manner customary in drawing cables. As the capstan is rotated the cable is drawn up the incline of the suspension-wire, and as it passes the attendant at the reel the S-hooks are successively applied to it at proper intervals and IOO reg

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pension-wire will be resting upon the upper faces of the wheels M, retained in place by the associated wheels M. As the loops reach these wheels they contact with the teeth, which are rotated and permit them to pass, the succeeding teeth coming into mesh before those in advance pass out of coaction, thus maintaining a constant engagement which holds the suspending-wire in place no matter how heavily it may vibrate. This operation takes place at each of the supports upon the passage of each hook until the last pole is reached. When this has been accomplished, the suspension-wire may be released from the temporary or rotatable carriers by removing one of each pair of wheels, lifted into the groove of the permanent carrier, and clamped therein. The carrierarms may now be removed for future use and the operation is completed, the cable being ready for attachment to the distributing-boxes.

The ordinary method of erecting a cable upon a suspension-wire in which this latter member is fixed in supports upon all the poles and in which open hooks are drawn over such wire by the action of the capstan is well known. This method is objectionable, it being necessary to close a greater or less number of the hooked loops after the cable is in place by an operator standing upon a lad" der. lt will be seen that my invention obviates this difficulty, there being but one per son required to manipulate the hangers and close the hooked loops, the progress of these by the supports being automatically effected. This is, moreover, accomplished without diminishing the security of the support, the suspension-wire being so held that no amount of vibration can displace it.

Though I have described the permanent and temporary carriers as forming a portion of the same supporting structure, it will be obvious that for the former any independent supporting-clamp of the ordinary type may be employed and the temporary carrier separately secured and removed from the poles.

This invention has been described in connection with the erecting of a cable; butmanifestly it could be equally well employed for the removal of a cable from the poles by a reversal of the operations.

Having thus described my invention, T claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A support for aerial cables including two intermeshing toothed wheels, a suspension member supported by said wheels and having means for connection with the cable, said connecting means being movable on the suspension member and adapted to coact with the teeth of the wheels to turn, and pass the same.

2. A support for aerial cables including two intermeshing toothed wheels situated substantially at right angles to one another, a

'suspension member supportedby said wheels and having means for connection with the cable, said connecting means being movable on the suspension member and adapted to coact with the teeth of the wheels to turn and pass the same.

3. A support for aerial cables comprising a block having a recess at its outer side adapted to receive a suspension-wire and also having an inclined face at its inner side, and a carrier-arm furnishing a temporary support for the suspensionwire and having a correspondingly-inclined face which may coact with that upon the block.

4. The combination with a series of poles, of a support carried by each pole, a continuous suspension member mounted upon the supports and being encircled thereby, a cable, hangers secured to the cable and surrounding the suspension member and being movable through the supports, and means for drawing the hangers over the suspension member.

5. The combination with a series of supports, of intermeshing toothed wheels carried by each support, a suspension-wire supported by said wheels, a cable, and hangers movable on the suspension-wire and secured to the cable, the said hangers being adapted, when the cable is drawn, to contact with the teeth of said wheels thereby rotating the wheels and passing the same.

6. The combination with a series of supports, of intermeshing toothed wheels carried by each support, the wheels on each support being situated substantially at right angles to one another, a suspension-wire supported by said wheels, a cable, and hangers movable on the suspension-wire and secured to the cable, the said hangers being adapted, when the cable is drawn, to contact with the teeth of said wheels, whereby the wheels are rotated to permit the hangers to pass.

7. A support for aerial cables comprisinga block having an opening for a securing device, the said block being provided in its outer face with an angular recess adapted to receive a suspension-wire, the said recess having a front wall partially closing the recess, and a set-screw extending through the said front wall for retaining the suspensionwire in place in the recess, the said block having at its inner side upwardly and outwardly inclined faces, adapted to coact with correspondingly-inclined faces on a carrier arm.

8. A support for aerial cables including a horizontally-extending carrier-arm having an end portion extending upwardly, inter meshing toothed wheels mounted to rotate on the carrier-arm, one of said wheels being mounted at the under side of the carrier-arm and the other upon the outer face of the upwardly-extending end portion of said arm, a suspension-wire extending through an opening, between the wheels and hangers for con- IOO IIO

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eraser nection With the cable, the saicl hangers be ing movable on the suspension- Wire and adapted to engage the teeth ofthe Wheels and rotate the same thereby permitting the hangers to pass between the intermeshng Wheels.

l9. The combination with a series of poles, of a support carried by each pole and comprising two interrneshing rotatable members, a suspension member mounted upon said supports and encircled thereby, a cable, hangers secured to the cable and having closed loops encircling the suspension member, and

means for drawing the cable and moving the closed loops along the suspension member', the said loops engaging and turning the ro- I5 tatable members and passing between the same.

In testimony Whereoi l have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

LEONARD ASHTON MCNEIL. Witnesses:

JAMES E. Wroorr, HENRY K. Groonmon.l 

